Acharnes
Acharnes, also known as Menidi, is a municipality in the East Attica regional unit in Greece. With 108,169 inhabitants, it is the ninth most populous municipality in Greece. It lies just north of the Athens urban area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 75,300 residents
- Description: northern suburb of Athens, Greece
- Also known as: “Acharne”, “Akharnaí”, “Menídhi”, “Menídhion”, and “Menidi”
- Historically known as: “Meníoi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Acharnai Railway Center and Folk Art Museum of Acharnes.
Acharnai Railway Center
Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Acharnes Railway Center or SKA is a two-level railway station in the northern parts of the Athens agglomeration, in the suburb of Acharnes, where several important railway lines converge.
Folk Art Museum of Acharnes
Museum
Acharnes, also known as Menidi, is a municipality in the East Attica regional unit in Greece. With 108,169 inhabitants, it is the ninth most populous municipality in Greece. It lies just north of the Athens urban area.
Acharnes railway station
Railway station
Acharnes railway station is a station on the Piraeus–Platy railway line in the northern part of the Athens urban area, in the municipality of Acharnes, Greece.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kamatero and Zefyri.
Kamatero
Suburb
Photo: Faraps, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamatero is a town and a suburb in the central-western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Agioi Anargyroi-Kamatero, of which it is a municipal unit. Kamatero is situated 3½ km southwest of Acharnes.
Zefyri
Neighborhood
Zefyri is a suburb of Athens and former municipality in West Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Fyli, of which it is a municipal unit.
Nea Liosia
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ilion is a town and a suburb in the western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Nea Liosia is situated 6 km southwest of Acharnes.
Acharnes
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Acharnes, East Attica, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.0842° or 38° 5′ 3″ northLongitude
23.7369° or 23° 44′ 13″ eastPopulation
75,300Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 280845658OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Acharnes” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Menidhi”
- Arabic: “أخارنيس”
- Arabic: “أكارني، أتيكي”
- Arabic: “اخارنيس”
- Armenian: “Ախարնես”
- Armenian: “Ահարնես”
- Belarusian: “Ахарнэс”
- Bengali: “অ্যাকারনেস”
- Bulgarian: “Ахарнес”
- Catalan: “Acharnes”
- Cebuano: “Acharnés”
- Chinese: “阿哈尔奈斯”
- Danish: “Acharnes”
- Dutch: “Acharnés”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اخارنيس”
- Finnish: “Acharnés”
- French: “Acharnés”
- Galician: “Acarnas”
- German: “Acharnes”
- Greek: “Αχαρναί”
- Greek: “Αχαρνές Αττικής”
- Greek: “Αχαρνές”
- Greek: “Μενίδι” (historical)
- Greek: “Μενίδιον” (historical)
- Gujarati: “અચર્નેસ”
- Hindi: “अकार्न्स”
- Hungarian: “Aharnész”
- Indonesian: “Acharnes”
- Irish: “Acharnes”
- Italian: “Acharnes”
- Japanese: “アカルナイ”
- Japanese: “アハルネス”
- Kannada: “ಆಚಾರ್ನೆಸ್”
- Korean: “아하르네스”
- Latvian: “Aharnesa”
- Lithuanian: “Acharnesas”
- Malay: “Acharnes”
- Marathi: “अचरानेस”
- Northern Frisian: “Acharnes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acharnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akharnés”
- Persian: “آخرنس”
- Polish: “Acharnes”
- Portuguese: “Acarnas”
- Romanian: “Acharnae”
- Russian: “Ахарне”
- Russian: “Менидион”
- Serbian: “Ахарнес”
- Sinhala: “ආචාර්නෙස්”
- Slovenian: “Aharnes”
- Slovenian: “Menidi”
- Spanish: “Acarnas”
- Swedish: “Acharnes”
- Tamil: “அச்சார்நெஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఆచార్న్స్”
- Thai: “อัชเนส”
- Turkish: “Aharnes”
- Turkish: “Menidi”
- Ukrainian: “Ахарнес”
- Urdu: “آخارنیس”
- Vietnamese: “Acharnes”
- Volapük: “Acharnes”
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